This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Moad, Pauly, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XKB.2ACE/683 Message Board Post: Moniteau County Herald May 20, 1904 A Mexican War Veteran Calvin Moad, an aged and respected citizen, died at his home eight miles northeast of California, May 16th, 1904. He was born in Campbell County, Tennessee, May 22d, 1815, and was 83 years, 11 months and 24 days old at the time of his death. His parents moved to Moniteau County when he was a small boy, locating on the Moniteau creek near Bacon. At the age of 18 years, he was married to Mary Pauly, who with three children, survive him. His wife, Aunt Polly, as she is familiarly called by all who know her, is five months and twenty days his senior. They had lived together as husband and wife for 71 years, and were awarded the premium by the Moniteau County Fair Association last fall for being the oldest couple in the county. He entered the farm on which he died from the government, and had resided on it continuously for nearly fifty years. He became religous in early life, and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian church, having been baptized by one of the founders of that denomination, Rev. Phineas Ewing, and always lived true to his profession. He was a ruling elder of the New Hope church at the time of his death and was a charter member of that con- gregation at the time of its organization in 1870. He served in the Sixth Missouri Cavalry in the Mexican War under Col. Doniphan, and was a member of the National Association of Veterans. He also served 4 years in the Confederate army, Uncle Calvin, as was usually called, was a good citizen, a kind neighbor, a loving husband and father, and a consistent Christian. He bore his last illness with Christian fortitude expressed his willingness to meet the final end.-- Funeral services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. McCluney, and interment was in the New Hope Cemetery.